• Table of Virtues in the form of a tree, with coats of arms, a partial rinceaux border, and two wild men wielding clubs., Ethica (index Ethics); De quatuor virtutibus (index On the Four Virtues)

colours and gold with foliate motifs and a partial border with rinceaux decoration in the outer margin (f. 1). Another large initial in colours and gold and foliate motifs (f. 119). Initials in red and blue with red and black

• Miniature of Anthony holding a Tau cross and with a pig, being burned., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')

red and blue ground with a three-sided foliate border (f. 15). Small initials (2 lines) in gold on red and blue grounds with foliate extensions into the margins. Small initials (1 line) and line fillers in gold on red and

• Miniature of a man beating down acorns for his pigs to feed, representing November; miniature of a man and a woman slaughtering a pig, representing December, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour., Breviari d'Amor (Catalan prose version)

miniature of a man and a woman slaughtering a pig, representing December, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour. The text is originally a Provencal poem composed between 1288 and 1292 by Matfré Ermengau of Béziers, and is an encyclopaedic

• Detail of a miniature of Joel with a flock of sheep., Bible historiale complétée moyenne (the 'Bible Historiale of John the Good')

colours and gold with foliate initials in gold and colours and full bar borders containing bas-de-page scenes, at the beginning of the prologue and Proverbs (ff. 1, 273). 87 one-column miniatures in colours and gold with foliate initials and partial

• Detail of a miniature of Joel seated, with a flock of sheep, and God above., La Bible historiale complétée (Proverbs - Revelation)

in grisaille, colours and gold, with a full bar border with a bas-de-page scene and birds, at the beginning of the text. 36 one-column miniatures partially in grisaille, colours and gold, and large foliate initials in colours and gold with

• Miniature of Simon de Hesdin presenting his book to the king of France Charles V (index presentation scene), in the foreground, a dog pursues a monkey. Full strew border in the Ghent-Bruges style with acanthus leaves, flowers, figures, and a monkey mounted on a sheep (damaged), with a space left blank for a coat of arms. Decorated initial 'L'(a briefte) at the beginning of book 1., Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (index Memorabilia, index Facta et Dicta Memorabilia), vol. 1, imperfect

by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian,

• Miniature of courtiers and servants observing a couple lying in bed at the beginning of book 8, and full border with a man climbing a vine and a hybrid creature wrestling a bear., Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (index Memorabilia, index Facta et Dicta Memorabilia), vol. 2

a sheep in its mouth and a crippled hybrid creature (f. 47v), a man climbing a vine and a hybrid creature wrestling a bear (f. 88v). Numerous initials in gold and colours, some with with tendrils of gold leaves and

• Illuminated historiated initial 'U' at the beginning of Leviticus, showing Aaron(?), dressed as a thirteenth-century priest, sacrificing a sheep on an altar, watched by similarly dressed Israelites., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

predominantly blue or red flourishing and marginal extensions, respectively. Line-fillers in red and blue, sometimes in the form of fish. Chapter numbers and running titles in alternate red and blue characters, with flourishes. Guide-letters and guide-numerals. Bible with prologues, without

• Drawing of king Arthur finding a giant roasting a pig., Roman de Brut, a verse epitome (begins imperfectly) with continuation to Edward III; Destruction de Rome; Fierabras

finding a giant roasting a pig. The first quire misbound; the right order being ff. 2, 8, 3-7, 1, 9.French verse translation, in octosyllabic couplets, of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.One of the first images of Stonehenge: see discussion

• Miniature of a pig being slaughtered, in the calendar for December., Psalter

queen of England and Ireland (1553-1558): inscribed, 'Gode saue the most vertuous and no/bull Quene Marys gras, / and send her to injoye the crou[n]ne / of Eynglande longe tyme and spas / her enimys to confunde, and / hutterly

• Calendar page for December, with miniatures of a man slaughtering a pig and a horned ram (Capricorn)., Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Hours of René d'Anjou')

by angels, in colours and gold (ff. 15v, 24v, 29v, 32v, 34v, 36v, 38v, 41v, 44v, 54v). 1 small miniature, accompanied by a large decorated initial and a three-sided foliate border carried by angels, in colours and gold (f. 140).

• Calendar page for December, with miniatures of a man slaughtering a pig and a horned ram (Capricorn)., Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Hours of René d'Anjou')

by angels, in colours and gold (ff. 15v, 24v, 29v, 32v, 34v, 36v, 38v, 41v, 44v, 54v). 1 small miniature, accompanied by a large decorated initial and a three-sided foliate border carried by angels, in colours and gold (f. 140).

• Decorated initial 'O'(mnipotens) combined with a partial border with acanthus leaves, flowers and foliate feathering at the beginning of a prayer to God the Father., Prayer book

acanthus leaves, flowers and foliate feathering (f. 8). Initials in colours and gold with foliate feathering, besants and ivy. Gold initial with brown pen-flourishing (ff. 30, 31v, 32v, ) and with foliate feathering (f. 30v). Initials and crosses (indicating when

• Miniature of Alexander battling against giant men; miniature of Alexander encountering blemmyae (men with heads on their torsos); miniature of Alexander encountering sheep-headed dragons., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

2 large miniatures in colours and gold with foliate initials in colours and gold and full bar borders with heraldic devices and vine leaves (ff. 1, 58). 162 one or two- column miniatures in colours and gold, at the beginning

• Miniature of Alexander battling against giant men; miniature of Alexander encountering blemmyae (men with heads on their torsos); miniature of Alexander encountering sheep-headed dragons; miniature of Alexander mourning Bucephalus; miniature of the burial of Bucephalus., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

2 large miniatures in colours and gold with foliate initials in colours and gold and full bar borders with heraldic devices and vine leaves (ff. 1, 58). 162 one or two- column miniatures in colours and gold, at the beginning

• Full foliate border with an initial 'S'(ancta) of the Virgin and Christ and George killing the dragon. A hound chases a stag and a hare in the bas-de-page, and a woman, likely the patron, kneels at the feet of an angel and gazes up at the Virgin., Book of Hours with a calendar, Use of Metz

1500] of the enthroned Virgin and Child with several sheepand a Franciscan monk and a nun, is pasted to f. 1v. 13 three-sided bar borders with bas de page scenes in colours and gold, and large historiated initials, many

• Decorated initial-word panel ~Barukh~ (Blessed) and full foliate border inhabited by hybrids and including a scene of a pig-like figure lifting the first cup of wine and a hare placing a stick upon a dog's head., Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite

the year five thousand and two hundred and nineteen from the Creation of the World which we reckon here in Bologna; and in order that he may have good title and proof, I have signed and accomplished that which I

• Calendar page for December with medallions of a man killing a pig with a hatchet, and Capricorn as a hybrid with the lower half as a blue curled tail., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

All pages with full foliate borders and bas-de-page scenes and grotesque decoration, in colours and gold. Large and smaller decorated foliate initials, in colours and gold. Small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Book of Hours,

• Miniature of a crowned woman (probably the first owner of the manuscript) kneeling in prayer with a bearded man, with the dove of the Holy Spirit above, at the beginning of the Matins of the Holy Ghos. Below, Christ stands before a group of animals, including a crowned lion, two stags, an ass, a pig, a unicorn, an elephant with a castle, a horse and an ox., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

All pages with full foliate borders and bas-de-page scenes and grotesque decoration, in colours and gold. Large and smaller decorated foliate initials, in colours and gold. Small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Book of Hours,

• Detail of a page: miniature of a pig-like figure lifting the first cup of wine and a hare placing a stick upon a dog's head., Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite

the year five thousand and two hundred and nineteen from the Creation of the World which we reckon here in Bologna; and in order that he may have good title and proof, I have signed and accomplished that which I